Illuminate Your Room Using Water Balloon Luminaries

Candles often give a room a romantic ambiance and they even look more elegant if you convert them into luminaries. You just need a few stuff for this DIY project such as water balloon. Simply dip the balloon into the melted gulf wax. You can choose any color you like and the thickness will also depend on your preference. Once done, you can pop the balloon and place the candle inside the molded wax.

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Hey guys so I’m going to show you how to make these water balloon luminaries and the things you’re going to need are flameless tea lights Golf wax which is also called paraffin wax a thermometer pink wax or any color that you want the end result to be balloons and also you’re going to need a cookie sheet with some parchment paper and also a double boiler.

So I’m going to fill the pot up with some water and you want to make sure that the other pot is not going to touch the water, and you’re going to turn on your stove and then place the other pot on top of it.

While that’s heating up you’re going to want to take a balloon and fill it up with water and if you had a lot of water balloon fights when you were a kid, it’s going to come in handy for this part so you want to put it around the head of the faucet and then just fill it up with water slowly. However much water you put into the balloon is going to be how high the wax can go because if the wax goes above the waterline then it’s going to pop so you want to take it off the faucet and then tie a knot.

Then once the water is boiling you’re going to want to put the Gulf or paraffin wax in the pie and I got mine at Walmart and you want to also put in the pink or your color choice wax this is going to dye the wax, if you don’t put this in it’ll just be white. The instructions did say to wait till it got up to 180 and I did do this and my balloon popped so I suggest going around 160 165 and then you’re just going to dip your balloon in and each layer you’re going to wait for it to dry and then dip it back in and as you can see I did switch pots because the other one was getting too hot and it wasn’t deep enough.

So in the middle of layers you’re going to want to just place it onto the parchment paper and make the bottom a little bit flat and then you’re going to stick it back into the wax and keep repeating this it probably took me around three minutes or so to get like the thickness that I wanted you

Then once the water is boiling you’re going to want to put the Gulf or paraffin wax in the pie and I got mine at Walmart and you want to also put in the pink or your color choice wax this is going to dye the wax, if you don’t put this in it’ll just be white. The instructions did say to wait till it got up to 180 and I did do this and my balloon popped so I suggest going around 160 165 and then you’re just going to dip your balloon in and each layer you’re going to wait for it to dry and then dip it back in and as you can see I did switch pots because the other one was getting too hot and it wasn’t deep enough. So in the middle of layers you’re going to want to just place it onto the parchment paper and make the bottom a little bit flat and then you’re going to stick it back into the wax and keep repeating this it probably took me around three minutes or so to get like the thickness that I wanted you

The instructions did say to wait till it got up to 180 and I did do this and my balloon popped so I suggest going around 160 165 and then you’re just going to dip your balloon in and each layer you’re going to wait for it to dry and then dip it back in and as you can see I did switch pots because the other one was getting too hot and it wasn’t deep enough. So in the middle of layers you’re going to want to just place it onto the parchment paper and make the bottom a little bit flat and then you’re going to stick it back into the wax and keep repeating this it probably took me around three minutes or so to get like the thickness that I wanted you

Then once the water is boiling you’re going to want to put the Gulf or paraffin wax in the pie and I got mine at Walmart and you want to also put in the pink or your color choice wax this is going to dye the wax, if you don’t put this in it’ll just be white. The instructions did say to wait till it got up to 180 and I did do this and my balloon popped so I suggest going around 160 165 and then you’re just going to dip your balloon in and each layer you’re going to wait for it to dry and then dip it back in and as you can see I did switch pots because the other one was getting too hot and it wasn’t deep enough. So in the middle of layers you’re going to want to just place it onto the parchment paper and make the bottom a little bit flat and then you’re going to stick it back into the wax and keep repeating this it probably took me around three minutes or so to get like the thickness that I wanted you want around 1/4 to 1/2 inch. At this point my arm to get tired so I did have to switch hands and you just want to keep going until you have the desired thickness and when you have the desired thickness you’re going to want to put it into the wax and then put it straight onto the parchment paper so it gets that flat bottom so it sits and you just want to let it cool down. This is footage from the other balloon I did because I accidentally forgot to record me popping the previous one and you just want to stick it with a skewer and you’re going to let it drain out. This one didn’t come out as good as my first one so I did ditch this one and I place my flameless tea light inside of there and you want to use flameless because we didn’t use high melt paraffin wax and it’s just because I couldn’t find it.

At this point my arm to get tired so I did have to switch hands and you just want to keep going until you have the desired thickness and when you have the desired thickness you’re going to want to put it into the wax and then put it straight onto the parchment paper so it gets that flat bottom so it sits and you just want to let it cool down. This is footage from the other balloon I did because I accidentally forgot to record me popping the previous one and you just want to stick it with a skewer and you’re going to let it drain out. This one didn’t come out as good as my first one so I did ditch this one and I place my flameless tea light inside of there and you want to use flameless because we didn’t use high melt paraffin wax and it’s just because I couldn’t find it.